Accessible Clean Water to Poor Families

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In this first four-month period, field activities carried out by IDRAP focused on preparing field topographic data to prepare designs for the number of pipes, pipe sizes, and reservoir designs for storing and filtering water before distribution to the residential areas. In this activity, IDRAP also involves local residents as part of knowledge transfer so that the clean water facilities can be managed by local residents. Local people are very enthusiastic about the plan to construct this clean water facility because they have been wanting it for a long time and these far they are consuming cloudy, smelly and tasteless water. The children also accompanied the team from IDRAP showing their enthusiasm for the plan to provide clean water for them.

Apart from that, IDRAP also held discussions with local communities, especially women's groups, to gather aspirations and ideas from them regarding how the construction of clean water facilities that are being planned can be managed sustainably by local people in the future by ensuring that poor families have sufficient access to the availability of clean water facilities. In this discussion, participants proposed that there should be cheaper water price for the poor families and more expensive price for the economically better households. The technical calculation of this tariff mechanism will be discussed again with participants at the next meeting while looking for an appropriate mechanism and a fair ratio by all parties, especially poor families in the village.

“This is a dream that will come true. We have long dreamed of being able to consume clean water. So far, we have had to travel 2-3 kilometers on foot to get clean water directly from a spring on the mountain. With the presence of this program, we hope to be able to get clean water directly at each home." Booba, local farmer, Southeast Sulawesi.

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